$\begingroup$Can you mention Google compute as well and further specify what exactly you're interested in knowing? As is I expect this will end up getting closed otherwise.$\endgroup$
– Devon Ryan♦Jun 12 '17 at 12:13

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$\begingroup$What do you want to use the computer services for? Do you have access to a university, research institute, or other academic facility? Is there a particular reason why your desktop or laptop is not appropriate?$\endgroup$
– gringerJun 12 '17 at 12:38

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$\begingroup$I do not think that this is a good question since there is no one good answer (or at least the answer should a list, not a one provider), so I will just link the providers I know : DNAnexus (private) and Vital-it (academic)$\endgroup$
– Kamil S JaronJun 12 '17 at 20:28

$\begingroup$I put this on hold since asking for lists like this is really not a very good fit for the Q&A format and better suited to something like a forum where a discussion can be had. See this old blog post for an explanation of the general rationale behind considering this type of question off topic.$\endgroup$
– terdonNov 2 '17 at 0:43

Other points: Command line was sometimes slow, wget queries were slow, and scp was blocked. However, these may be resolvable issues.

Overall, I felt InsideDNA could be useful for groups without their own computational infrastructure and could be used for easily sharing resources between groups. The packages on offer seem not expensive, but I had a few issues, and I don't know how good their sys admin support would be.

I have not used the Amazon service, so can't comment beyond the details on their website. Also there are a few alternative companies, such as Genestack and DNAnexus, but I haven't directly tested them either.

I'm not sure what kinds of bioinformatics tasks you would like to perform, therefore it is difficult to give a good recommendation.

If you're specifically working on statistical genetics, I can recommend Hail [1]. Hail is an open-source tool for analyzing genetics data at the tens of terabyte scale. Most of Hail's users do their science in Jupyter notebooks that are backed by Google Cloud Platform Dataproc clusters. Hail permits you to perform a variety of statistical genetics tasks including:

Depending on your applications and uses, you might be interested in checking out CyVerse. It is an NSF funded initiative that provides you with data storage, high performance computing resources, and easy access to commonly used tools. As far as I know, it is free to use once you have an account. I also usually encounter it being used with plant and microbial genomics, so not sure how it will work with something like human genomics projects. But might be worth checking out at least. :)

Google Genomics

SNPedia

Promethease

"Promethease is a literature retrieval system that builds a personal DNA report"
promethease.com

DNA Land

"Compare DNA with reference data from different populations"
dna.land

The CyDAS Project

And, there's the CyDAS project which has an API that can analyze ISCN formulae. Per their web site: their API "lets you analyze a Karyotype for virtually all information which can be extracted from karyotypes and the rearrangements therein: gains and losses of chromosomal material, break points, junctions..." It's a free service, but I don't know how up to date it is.